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Adventures In DOS...

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Another off-topic post. After my recent adventures with Microsoft Solitaire , I decided to try my hand at resurrecting some of my DOS era games. Of particular interest was an early first-person shooter called Doom . After a quick peek into the depths of the internet, I came across a project called the Doomsday Engine . The Doomsday Engine is a port of the original Doom rendering engine using updated technologies to breath new life into the old Doom maps. Once I had the Doomsday version of Doom up and running, it wasn't long before I stumbled across a similar effort for Wolfenstien 3D called ECWolf . ECWolf is similar to the Doomsday Engine in that it is a port of the original rendering engine that can read the old map data for Wolfenstien 3D . After ECWolf , I came across an impressive MOD for Doomsday that simulates Corridor 7 . After my success with the these two applications, I came across another project called DOSBox . DOSBox differs from the previous applicat